Towards a computational history of modernism in European literary history: Mapping the Inner Lives of Characters in the European Novel (1840–1920) Article Swipe
Tamara Radak
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Lou Burnard
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Pieter François
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Agnes Hilger
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Fotis Jannidis
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Gábor Palkó
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Roxana Patraș
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Michael Preminger
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Diana Santos
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Christof Schöch
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· 2024
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· DOI: https://doi.org/10.12688/openreseurope.16290.2
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· 2024
· Open Access
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· DOI: https://doi.org/10.12688/openreseurope.16290.2
In this paper, we investigate the common narrative in literary history that the inner lives of characters became a central preoccupation of literary modernism – a phenomenon commonly referenced as the “inward turn”. We operationalize this notion via a proxy, tracing the use of verbs relating to inner life across 10 language corpora from the ELTeC collection, which comprises novels from the period between 1840–1920. We expected to find an increase in the use of inner-life verbs corresponding to the traditional periodisation of modernism in each of the languages. However, different experiments conducted with the data do not confirm this hypothesis. We therefore look at the results in a number of more granular ways, but we cannot identify any common trends even when we split the verbs into individual categories, or take canonicity or gender into account. We discuss the obtained results in detail, proposing potential reasons for them and including potential avenues of further research as well as lessons learned.
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